Christmas is celebrated across the world as the birth of Jesus Christ, the light that entered a dark and divided world. Yet, when seen through the combined lenses of astronomy, astrology, and ...

A KEY POINT MISSING: In Tibetan culture, it is common to see the old grandparents not only give a pop kiss to the small children, but also give a small candy or piece of food to children from their ...

According to Dr. Gary Chapman, a marriage counselor, there are five love languages. I read his book The 5 Love Languages many years ago. I was intrigued by the concept of speaking a different “love ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been interested in why we do what we do, why we behave in the ways we behave. I think we all want to be happy and to live lives with meaning and fulfillment.

In the Buddhist cosmology, Pretas, or the “Hungry Ghosts,” refers to a psychic domain in which the human mind is tormented by desires that could never, ever be satiated. In the mythology, the hungry ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

This is not a story about a farmer, a plot of land, or regenerative agriculture. What you are about to read is a reflection of the uninhibited power of nature and ancestral wisdom captured in a human ...

Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

Every reader can relate to vulnerability and to the glimmers of bravery we show to face it. The common threads of vulnerability and bravery weave us together as human beings. But I was not used to ...

What the f*ck. I am not 10 years old. But my therapist was insistent. In the aftermath of a marriage that blew up like a supernova, I was at the beginning of my journey to figure out why my ...

“Counterfeit love” was something I had blurted out to describe my previous romantic relationships—once I realized that I’m an off-the-charts empath. I used “counterfeit” because I thought of money.

“A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are ...